Mortgages

Prime London market holds firm amid rising supply and softer sales

The prime London housing market remained subdued in June but new data from LonRes...

Virgin Money cuts residential fixed rates across key LTV bands

Virgin Money is set to implement a series of rate reductions across its residential...

The Leeds lowers mortgage rates by up to 40bps

Leeds Building Society is set to reduce interest rates across a broad selection of...

Borrower confidence returns as mortgage applications up 42%

Borrower confidence appears to be returning to the UK mortgage market, with June data...

Hinckley & Rugby unveils new Income Flex deals with 5.5x LTI

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has launched three new products under its Income Flex...

Accord cuts fixed residential rates up to 90% LTV

Accord Mortgages is set to reduce rates across its residential mortgage range from today,...

Barclays cuts mortgage rates once again

Barclays is to introduce further reductions across a broad range of mortgage products from...

The Right Mortgage adds April Mortgages to lender panel

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has added April Mortgages to its lender panel,...

Vida now supports foreign nationals up to 90% LTV

Vida has launched a new range of residential mortgage products aimed at foreign nationals...

Skipton cuts fixed rates across 114 mortgage products

Skipton Building Society has announced sweeping cuts to its residential mortgage range, reducing rates...

First-time buyer mortgage activity outpaces home mover market

First-time buyer mortgage applications have outpaced the wider housing market in the second quarter...

HSBC revises mortgage ranges and fixed rate terms

HSBC is making extensive updates to its residential and international mortgage product ranges, with...

Santander cuts remortgage rates

Santander UK has reduced interest rates on all of its 60–75% loan-to-value (LTV) remortgage...

The Leeds and L&C streamline applications with open banking pilot

Leeds Building Society and L&C Mortgages have introduced a new automated process that enables...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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